SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST:

Shot:

I remember watching my first Winter Olympics in 1980. We were on a family ski trip at Copper Mountain in Colorado, where my brother and I skied the first powder run of our lives. It was on a gentle slope just off one of the main trails. We wiggled down the hill in chaotic rapture then skied the run again and again. The snow was soft and the turns effortless. You don’t have to be a skier to feel nostalgia for those whitewashed days — or to see the writing on the wall.

—“The End of Snow?”, the New York Times, February 7^th, 2014.

Chaser:

(Classical reference in headline.)